Clothes-drier.



J. E. HILL. CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION men saw. 4. 1912.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918;,

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MILLARD COTTBELL, OF BROOKLINE,

CLOTHES-DRIER.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

MASSACHUSETTS.

"Patented- Nov. 5, 191s.

Applicationfiled September 4, 1917. Serial No. 189,473.

To all whom it may concern:

Zen of the United States, residing at Melrose Highlands, county ofhliddlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inClothes-Driers, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawing, is a specificatiomlike characters on thedrawing representing like parts. v

This invention relates to clothes driers of thattype which are adaptedto be secured to the wall of a room and in which the clothes supportingarms are capable of vertical movement so th-atthey can be lowered andthus brought into convenient, reach of'a person standingon the floor,and when they are filled with clothes they can be elevated out of theway and retained in elevated position. I

The object of my invention is to provide a novel clothes drier of thistype which is simple in construction, which can be cheaply manufacturedand which can be easily manipulated.

In order to give an understanding of the invention, 1 have illustratedin the drawings a selected embodiment thereof which will now bedescribed. after which the novel features will be pointed out in theappended claims.

n'igure 1 of the drawing is a perspective view of my improved clothesdrier showing the clothes-supporting member in elevated position in fulllines, and in lowered position in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view enlarged.

Fig. 3 is a detailed view showing the manner of locking the head inelevated position.

Fig. i is an edge view of the head with the arms omitted.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5, Fig. 2.

The elothessupporting member of my improved clothes drier comprises ahead 1 having a plurality of clothes-supporting arms 2 extendingradially therefrom. This head 1 is sustained for vertical movement on aholder or guiding member herein shown as a pair of guide rods 3 that maybe secured to the wall in any suitable way. I have herein illustratedthese guide rods as secured at their lower ends to a bracket 4., and assecured at their upper ends to another bracket 5.

7 means to hold the head These brackets may be secured directly tothe'wall of the room or may besecured to a backing board 6 whichin turnis fastened to the wall in any suitable way.

" The head 1 is of novel construction. Said head will preferably and mayconveniently be formed (-f sheet metal, and is provided 211 socketstoreceive the ends of the arms 2. One convenient way of forming thesesockets is to provide the head 1 with slits and then to bend the metalon the inner side of each slit upwardly as shown at T, and to bend themetal on the opposite side of the slit downwardly as shown at 8. Thedownwardly bent portion constitutes a rest for one of the arms 2 and thecorresponding upwardly bent portion constitutes a holddown, which restand holddown. form together means for securely holding one of the arms 2in proper position. The edge 9 of the rear slit constitutes a stop tolimit the distance which the arms may be inserted into the sockets. I

, The head -1 is cut away at its rear edge as shown at 10 and isprovided with two extensions or fingers 11 that embrace the guide rods 3and form with the topof' the head a space in which the guide rods arereceived.

The head 1 hasa handle or stem 12 secured thereto and dependingtherefrom, which handle extends through an aperture 13 in the lowerbracket 45. This handle or stem 12 together with the; fingers 11 serveto -hold the head in proper position as it is raised or loweredon theguide rods 3.

The stem 12'may be secured to the head in any suitable way. I haveherein shown for this purpose a socket 1 L formed on the head in whichthe upper end of the stem is received.

The stem is provided on its back side with a notch 15 which is adaptedto receive one edge of the aperture 13 after the head is raised, saidnotch thus operating as a in its elevated position. The aperture 13 islarge enough to allow sufficient lateral movement of the stem to permitthe notch to be disengaged from the edge of the aperture whenever it isdesired to lower the head.

The notch 15 is purposely placed on the back side of the stem 12 forthereason that the clothes-supporting arms 2 extend in a forwarddirection so that the weight of the arms and'the clothes thereon willtend to other. This flexing swing the lower end of the stem rearwardly.Thus by having the notch 15 on the back side of the stem, the weight ofthe clothes will auton'iatically cause the notch to engage the edge ofthe aperture 13 when the head is raised.

It is intended that the device will be secured to the wall of the roomrelatively near the ceiling but yet in such a position that when thehead is lowered to the bottom. of the guide rods 3, the arms 2 will bein a position to be conveniently reached.

In using the device the head will first be lowered into the dotted lineposition, Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the clothes to be dried. will thenbe placed on the arms The person using the device may then take hold ofthe lower end of the stem 12 and raise the head into its full lineposition, after which the lower end of the stem may be moved laterallyin the aperture 13 so as to bring the notch 15 into locking engagementwith the edge of the hole 13. In this way the head will be securely heldin its elevated position and when in. this position, the clothes on thearms are entirely out of the way, and are also situated near the ceilingwhere the temperature is highest.

The guide rods 3 are somewhat resilient, the purpose of this being topermit a ready removal of the head from the guide rods. To accomplishthis the head will be placed in a position approximately midway of therods and then pressure may be applied to the guide rods to bend themtoward each of the guide rods will carry them inwardly a sutiicientdistance so that the fingers 11 may be disengaged therefrom. When thehead is thus disengaged from the guide rods then the said head and itsstem may be readily removed by simply lifting the stem verticallythrough the aperture 13. To apply the head to the guide rods the lowerend of the stem is 1 first inserted into the aperture 13 and then theguide rods are bent inwardly from each other to permit the fingers 11 tobe placed behind them.

The device is very simple and inexpensive to manufacture and is easilymanipulated.

I claim:

1. In a clothes drier, a con'ibination with a head, of a holder on whichsaid head is supported for vertical sliding movement, a plurality ofclothes-supporting arms sustained by the head and extending forwardlytherefrom, said holder having a laterallyextending plate or memberbeneath the head and provided with an aperture, and a stem dependingfrom said head and slidable through said aperture, said stem havingtherein a notch adapted to engage one side of said aperture when thehead is in elevated position, said notch being on the back side of thestem whereby when the head is elevated the weight on theclothes-supporting arms will automatically move the notch into lockingengagement with the plate.

2. In a clothes drier, the combination with two resilient guide rods, ofmeans to secure said rods to the wall of a room, a head pro vided withtwo oppositely directed fingers that embrace said guide rods, andclothes supporting arms sustained by said head, the resiliency of saidguide rods permitting them to be flexed laterally sutliciently to bedisengaged from said fingers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN E. HILL.

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